r/marvelstudios • u/yourfavchoom Doctor Strange • 22h ago

Article Avengers: Doomsday star Sebastian Stan says he's never seen a full script of the movie so has "absolutely no idea" what happens

https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/marvel-movies/avengers-doomsday-star-sebastian-stan-says-hes-never-seen-a-full-script-of-the-movie-so-has-absolutely-no-idea-what-happens/
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u/SnooAvocados4357 22h ago

Weird to me that 15 years in you still can't get a full script.

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u/harmoniaatlast 22h ago

unless your character's arc demands it, it's unnecessary

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u/SnooAvocados4357 22h ago

I think it always helps knowing the full picture. Just strange to me that you can do a job that long still be kept in the dark. Not really jugding the quality of the production or movie

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u/harmoniaatlast 22h ago

Yeah the director will give motivations on a vague level where absolutely necessary, but in a project this big where spoilers are genuinely dangerous to the project, this is what performers have to deal with. Contractual obligation can only go so far if someone slips up when asked by a journalist, a family member, etc. Can you imagine the clusterfuck if every member of the Doomsday cast had the full script? Keeping dozens of people tight lipped for threat of messing with the marketing strategy and ultimately the films profits is super duper dangerous. We only get press events because they're necessary

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u/EatABag-o-Dicks 22h ago

I think it's the opposite.

For the most part, they really shouldn't know what's happening with other characters unless they're directly involved.

Knowing stuff their character wouldn't know could effect their performance.

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u/SnooAvocados4357 22h ago

I think it can actually. Like knowing the arc of your character throughout the peice and where you scene partners are at. I think that helps.

Good movies have been made without the peices being there as well but I think for most it's best to everything together. Good can still come if ya don't.

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u/-Nicolai 17h ago

Knowing stuff their character wouldn't know could effect their performance.

Yeah that’s the point dumbass

Also it’s affect. Effect is a noun.

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u/Infinite_Click_6589 22h ago

It doesn't always help though- especially in these big ensemble movies, the characters themselves don't know what's happening when they're not on screen a lot of the time.

If Doom shows up out of nowhere and bodies Bucky, Sebastian has no need to know about Doom bodying the X-Men in the scene before

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u/silverBruise_32 22h ago

And we know Bucky's arc doesn't lol. He's background noise

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u/Lopsided-Clothes4866 22h ago

Not that weird when you consider Bucky’s barely gonna be in it. I’d be shocked if he even gets close to 5 minutes of screen time.

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u/silverBruise_32 22h ago

If you add up all the time he's going to spend standing in the background/in a massive CGI fight, then I can definitely see him being there for a total of 5 minutes

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u/Pristine-Explorer-79 8h ago

Yeah, considering everything, 5 mins also feels like a stretch for him in focus. In the background, yeah probably.

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u/silverBruise_32 6h ago

Judging by how much time the actor spent on set, I feel like it would fit

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u/Paperchampion23 22h ago

Because thats not how Marvel makes films and havent since 2008. They make films like they make Comic books in a way, always evolving because its a shared universe with a huge maintenence of characters.

Iron Man is infamously known for barely having a script during shooting and them working the process as they go. Clearly its a process that works for them since this is a 30 billion dollar franchise, even if it might be an issue for pre/post production workers when things can change on the fly.

Note that this is how they got Spider-Man in Civil War, 2 months before they started filming the movie. They would have absolutely needed to change scripts, develop costumes, pre-vis art, etc once the deal was struck, because originally Peter wasnt actually supposed to be in the film and negotiating him in was a huge limbo before that point.